TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - An arson task force is investigating after a

Tampa man died in a house fire.

     Authorities in Tampa say the fire broke out just before 2 a.m.

Thursday in south Tampa.

     Tampa Fire Rescue spokesman Lonnie Benniefield told the St.

Petersburg Times (http://bit.ly/q0CXli ) the man was pulled from

the burning building and taken to Tampa General Hospital, where he

later died.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Authorities say a Tampa man forgot to turn

off his car, resulting in the death of his 23-year-old neighbor

earlier this month.

     Tampa police confirmed on Wednesday that 22-year-old Andrew

Grywalski wasn't distracted and or under the influence of drugs or

alcohol when he pulled in the garage at his apartment complex on

Sept. 1. They've deemed the death of Rebecca Hawk a "tragic

accident."

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (AP) - Pasco sheriff's detectives have

made an arrest in a 1982 cold case murder.

     The sheriff's office said Wednesday that a 59-year-old Kentucky

man has been arrested in the slaying of his wife, whose body was

found in the Gulf of Mexico near Bradenton in 1982 but was not

identified until earlier this summer.

     William Gary Hurst is in custody in Dawson Springs, Ky.,

awaiting extradition to Florida. The couple was living in New Port

Richey northwest of Tampa when 29-year-old Amy Rose Hurst

disappeared.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - A new poll shows Florida Republicans

slightly prefer Texas Gov. Rick Perry over former Massachusetts

Gov. Mitt Romney in their party's battle to find a nominee to face

President Barack Obama next year.

     Perry was favored by 28 percent of the 374 registered Republican

voters compared to 22 percent who want Romney as their nominee. The

random telephone survey, conducted Sept. 14-19 by Quinnipiac

University, has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.1 percentage

points.

  WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama heads to Ohio today to

market his $447 billion jobs proposal. He'll make his latest pitch

from an outdated bridge that links Ohio and Kentucky - the home

states of his two chief congressional GOP rivals - House Speaker

John Boehner (BAY'-nur) and Senate Republican leader Mitch

McConnell. The White House says that's "not an accident."

     UNDATED (AP) - Heading into tonight's Republican debate in

swing-state Florida, a new poll finds that Florida Republicans

prefer Texas Gov. Rick Perry by a slight margin over former

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. The random telephone survey by

Quinnipiac University has Perry as the favorite by 28 percent to 22

percent . The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5.1

percentage points.

     WASHINGTON (AP) - Times can be tough economically for young

adults these days. New census data show 20- and 30-somethings are

experiencing the highest unemployment since World War II. The

figures also show there are a record number of young adults moving

in with their parents, delaying marriage, buying fewer homes and

raising kids out of wedlock.

     LONDON (AP) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says in a new

memoir that he did not sexually assault two women who have accused

him of rape. Assange says, "I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort

but I am no rapist." And he claims Western intelligence warned him

that the U.S. government was out to get him.

     CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA says there's probably no need

to duck and cover. The 6-ton satellite that's expected to smack

down on Earth sometime tomorrow will likely hit water instead of

land and will miss North America. Re-entry will happen over the

Pacific late Friday afternoon, give or take 14 hours.